Word: travelers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There are 179 MD-11s currently in service, 119 of which are dedicated to passenger travel. The jet, a descendant of the DC-10, has technology that allows it to be steered during an emergency by alternating thrust on the two underwing engines even if the center engine in the tail explodes and severs all hydraulic control lines for the rudders and elevators--as in the case of a DC-10 that crash-landed in an Iowa cornfield in 1989. The Swissair MD-11 successfully underwent a thorough inspection just over a year ago, and Swissair's safety-and-maintenance...
Other companies that took major hits were transportation stocks whose business involves trade and travel: the parent companies of such airlines as American, United and Delta. Companies like Coca-Cola, Procter & Gamble and Gillette, which not long ago were praised for their successful penetration of global markets, last week were punished harshly through stock sell-offs. General Electric, the world's most valuable public corporation and one of the most admired, fell 22%, losing $68 billion of its market value...
...hooker (Mary-Louise Parker) gets called in to service an old geezer, who promptly confesses that he had his first two wives killed. She flees into a closet, doors spin, and we are transported to the same room 20 years earlier--then 20 years before that. The time-travel gimmick is fun but hardly frivolous: the play explores matters of fate and free will, and the ability of people to control their own destiny. A clever and finally quite moving work...
Mandela will likely travel to Cambridge fromNew York and then depart for Canada, according toa spokesperson with the Department of ForeignAffairs in South Africa...
...sent were received within minutes from a variety of tricky locations. (The one exception was when I tried to send an e-mail from a train under Pennsylvania Station; the message was never delivered, though the Pagewriter claimed otherwise.) It was also cool to have news headlines and travel data, such as plane schedules, delivered to my gadget...